Cash indicator and register



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0. E. LORD.

CASH INDIGATOR AND REGISTER.

No. 398,898. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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0. E. LORD.

GASH' INDIGATOR AND REGISTER.

Patented Mar. 5, 18189.

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' UNITED STATES CHARLES EDGAR LORD, ()F

PATENT OFFICE.

BOSTON, MASSACIIYSETTS.

CASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,898, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed October 11, 1888. Serial No. 287,802. No model.

ton, in the county of Suffolk and Common- 1 wealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cash-Registers, of which the following is a specificaiitm.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby it is made more difficult than it has heretofore been to make a false registration.

Myinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings of certain portions of a cash-register, and in which- Figure 1 is' a view seen when looking upwardly at the under edges of the registeringkeys of a portion of a cash-register whose keys are arranged in sets having nine keys in each set. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partially in section of the line 2 2 of Fig. l; and Fig. 3 isan elevation similar to that shown in Fi 2, butshowing some of the keys depressed from their normal position.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, a a represent portions of the frame of a cash-register, to which are pivoted upon the rod 7) the keys 0 c 0. Each of the keys 0 is provided with projections (Z (Z, which engage with the bars 1' and j upon the key-coupler Z, which is made up of said bars 1' and] and the arms or levers 71 71. The key-coupler Z is pivoted upon the arms 0 c, which are in turn pivoted upon the rod 1) or other suitable pivot upon the frame of the machine. The arms 6 e are shown as 0011- nected by the stop-bar is, thus making the key-coupler support I sufficiently rigid. The arms e e are shown as held by the springs ff against the stops gupon the frame, although a suital; lyarrangcd weight may be arranged to take the place of said springs when it is desirable to do so.

In Fig. 2 the keys and key-coupler Z are shown in their normal registration to be made. \Vhen the operator displaces one or more of the keys 0, as shown in Fig. 3, the projections (Z upon said displaced keys will come in contact with the bar 1' and partially rotate the key-coupler Z upon the pivots n. \Vhen this rotation takes place,

position, ready for a i the bar-j is carried over the catches Ill upon the projections 1.] upon those keys 0 that have been displaced,thereby looking all the depressed keys together and forcing all of said keys to complete their forward motion whenever any one of said keys is completely depressed, the arms c c yielding to allow said complete depression to take place. 'When j said keys have completed their forward 1110-- tioinas above described, and the downward pressure upon said keys is removed, or the pressure of the projections (Y (Z upon the bar 6 is released, the weight of thebarj will cause said bar to fall away from the catches m 172 against the bar is, thus uncoupling all keys. If for any reason the weight of the barj does not act as above described immediately after registration, said keys would remain coupled together by the bar) until the lever chad returned to its normal position, after which the keys would continue their backward motion and force the bar off of the catches at m by means of the inclined bearing-surfaces of said catches m in, as seen in Fig. 2. It will thus be seen that the keys will be uncoupled after registration and before said keys have rei turned to their normal positions. The bar i is so adjusted with respect to the projections l (l d that it will, when in use, swing under any i of the catches m m upon said projections d (7, when said projections are in their normal po sitions; but above the catches m m are projections d (l, which are on the keys that are slightly displaced from their normal position,

as shown in Fig.

It will thus be seen that when my improvement is applied to a keyed cash-register it is necessary that all the keys which are displaced from their original position must move together in their forward or registering motion, even it the tlngerot' the operator should slip from any of said keys.

I have omitted from my drawings and description all reference to any registering mech anism or key-locking mechanism, since such mechanism is not thought to be necessarily j shown or described, in order that persons skilled in the art of making cash-registers should understand this my present improvement and be able to apply the same to cashregisters.

'I do not desire to limit myself in the use of my improvement to any particular style or type of cash-register, as it is applicable to a great many such types of register; nor do I 5 desire to limit myself to the especial form and arrangement of the parts which are illustrated, since such form and arrangement are necessarily modified to suit the requirements of diiterent registers now well known.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. I11 a cash-register, the combination,with the registering-keys, of the key-coupler ad apted to couple the displaced keys together dur- 15 ing their registering motion, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified. I

2. In a cash-register, the combination,with the registering-keys, of the key-coupler adapted to couple the displaced keys together dur- 2o ing their registering motion, and to uncouple said keys from each other after the registration. has been completed, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

3. I11 a cash-register, the combination, with 2 5 the registering-keys, each adapted to engage with a key-coupler, of the movable key 'coupler support and the key-coupler mounted thereon and adapted to engage with displaced registering-keys during their registering motion, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

4. In a cash-register, the combination, with a set of registering-keys, of a key-coupler support pivoted to a suitable support, and the key-coupler pivoted upon said. key-coupler support and engaging with displaced registering-keys during their registering motion, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

5. In a cash-register, the combination, with the pivoted registering-keys, each provided with the projection d, of the key-couplersupport pivoted to a suitable support and held toward said keys by suitable means, and the key-coupler pivoted on said key-coupler support and engaging with the projections cl on the displaced registering-keys during their registering motion, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES EDGAR, LORD. Witness-es:

CHAS. S. Goomiye,

CHARLES H. FIsH R. 

